[Cronos]

When Catholicism took over in Rome, the way the Saints were celebrated was exactly the way they had celebrated the Greek Gods. They subsititued the gods for the saints. In fact the Catholic rituals and architecture of the churches were replicated from the Greek pagan religions.

Cooo, the architecture was the same as that of the lands the church settled in, huh? So, the White house with its GReek arches is evil, huh? Impossibly silly argument (not you, just that argument point).

The Saints were celebrated with a few days of orgies like Saturnalia? Or were there sacrifices made to them?

[ruthles]

Never tried to imply the creativity of the Greek civilization was evil. Their progress was the standard for all of western civilization.
It's simply a fact that the Romans had copied the Greeks and adopted their gods and goddesses. That was the culture, so when they accepted Christianity, they modified their pagan Greek religious rituals to fit Christianity. Some of it was good, may be some of it could have been better which is about as close as humanoids ever get to perfection.